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2021 EXTRA ELITE 100 PITCHER KENDALL MANGEL COMMITS TO CORNHUSKERS
It’s been a very busy month for one of So Cal’s top pitching prospects.
Over the last few weeks, Kendall Mangel, the outstanding 2021 pitcher for the Corona Angels 18U team coached by Marty Tyson and an All-American at Chino Hills (California) High, has been busy moving homes “just down the street.”
For Christmas yesterday, her family found time to open presents and Kendall got what she says is her favorite present: “A pair of new white Nikes, but I haven’t been able to wear them because it’s been raining!”
The move and the holidays follow her big announcement about a month ago when she switched her softball verbal commit from Maryland to Nebraska.
We caught up with her today and she explained why she jumped from one Big Ten school to another.
“What really started it off was when Maryland switched coaches,” she begins. “I looked at several schools and Nebraska as a whole really impressed me. They have a beautiful campus, great facilities and the coaches are wonderful.”
Kendall said she loves the staff’s experience, including pitching coach Lori Sippel whom the club and high school standout looks forward to learning from.
“She (Sippel) has produced many All-Americans and that’s one of my goals as a pitcher; she can help me get to where I want to be.”
Kendall had several schools contact her Sept. 1. She visited Purdue and Nebraska and committed on November 18, the weekend after she returned from her Nebraska official visit when the Cornhuskers played Wisconsin in football prior to Thanksgiving.
“It was sunny but very cold wind,” she admits. “I got cold in my toes, but I was bundled up and overall did pretty well!”
The pitcher’s stats and accomplishments have come from what scouts say is her bulldog and attacking approach in the circle and her combo of good spin and speed, which the hurler says “helps me move north and south, east and west, especially because of my spin.”
i am beyond blessed and excited to announce that i have verbally committed to the university of nebraska to further my academic and athletic career. thank you to everyone in my life that has supported me through out this process. GO HUSKERS❤️ pic.twitter.com/LAs6eP22PJ
— ken💕 (@kendallmangel_) November 21, 2019
Kendall has been a standout since her freshman year at Chino Hills (California) High when she made 1st Team Extra Inning Softball High School All-American and was CalHiSports.com’s 1st Team All-State, one of only two freshman to make the list in 2018, by going 27-3 with a 1.25 ERA and 113 K’s in 195.2 innings. She led her team to the CIF semi’s where she lost an eight-inning heartbreaker 1-0 to Cerritos Gahr.
That summer she and fellow pitcher Kylee Magee (2022, Arizona State) led the Corona Angels 14U to a PGF Nationals championship.
As a sophomore in 2019, Kendall earned 2nd Team Extra Inning Softball High School All-American honors after going 24-5 with a 1.65 ERA and had 102 K’s in 153 innings.
*** Scroll down below to read more about Kendall, her ranking in last year’s 2021 Extra Elite 100, her new Angels team and the powerful pitching staff she’s part of! And we have a lot of Christmas follow-ups!